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A quarter million employers apply to Socso for wage subsidy

The government has come up with a raft of aid measures to help Malaysians weather the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak, including a wage subsidy programme for employers. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, May 1, 2020.

SOCIAL Security Organisation has received nearly a quarter million applications from employers with a total 1.98 million workers for the wage subsidy programme since April 1. Socso chief executive officer Dr Mohammed Azman Aziz Mohammed said in a statement yesterday that most of the 248,216 applications were from micro and small business owners.

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